Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
From
the legendary Pentagon Papers whistle-blower, an eyewitness exposé of
America's Top Secret, seventy-year nuclear policy that continues to this
day.
Here, for the first time, former high-level defense
analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of
America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in
the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate
use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for
general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause
the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this
most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its
proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very
survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so
candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early
Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era.
Framed
as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges
participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers
feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine"
and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as
whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr.
Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully
important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.
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